Category Archives: Quality & Assurance

One of the tricky question for a software engineer is to estimate when his code will be ready. It is a tricky question because ‘ready’ is generally not well defined. Ready can mean a lot of different things, depending to whom you ask. The developer might assume having his code working and tested, the program… Read More »

Some interesting Spec Explorer videos from Channel9. It is all you need to get started with Model Based Testing. The idea behind spec explorer is to make a model of the requirements of your products and let Spec Explorer generate millions of interesting test cases. You just need to find enough CPU power to run… Read More »

I will soon celebrate my three years anniversary as a professional software engineer in test. After three years, I still feel like I am missing some formal “education” on software testing. Despite owning a Master degree in Information Systems and Communication and having spent 5 years at University I never had any introduction to software… Read More »

As a tester, quality is what matter most to me. Interestingly, quality is pretty much the hardest thing to evaluate. One way, which I find useful, is to aggregate the metrics from multiple aspects of quality to have an overall view. Some important aspects of quality: Reliability Functionality Usability Efficiency Maintainability Portability Learnability Analyzability Testability… Read More »